{"id":347890,"date":"2026-09-16T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347890\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:10:07","slug":"hochul-responds-to-critics-of-n-y-energy-rebate-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347890\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul responds to critics of N.Y. energy rebate checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the coming months, New York state <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2026\/09\/14\/checks-up-to--200-will-soon-be-mailed-to-eligible-new-yorkers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">will mail out energy rebate checks of up to $200<\/a> to more than 8 million households across the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Hochul administration says the move is to alleviate costs for New Yorkers dealing with higher energy bills this summer. However, the governor\u2019s critics are saying the checks are coming too close to Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Tuesday to discuss this and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a continuation of what I\u2019ve doing for years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see an opportunity to put money back in people\u2019s pockets, I\u2019m going to take it,\u201d Hochul continued.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the coming months, New York state will mail out energy rebate checks of up to $200 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[378,116,25,377,379,75,84,83,9,24,49,12,112,108,63,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-347890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}